Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-16
RELEASED BY DEATH.
The Inquest Conducted wish Great
SeCTecy-Tbe Detectives Believed
70 Have CiCW-MaHy Rum0rs.
1I'ss I'os.ick on the Road 10 Recovery she
Remembers Being Awakened by
Ecr COmpaniOn's Struggles.
THE GAINESVILLE TRAGEDY.

THE GAINESVILLE TRAGEDY.
spcois! to the Gazette.
GAINESVILLE, Ten, July 1.-THE
5ealh OF Miss Genie Watkins, ore OF the
victims OF the yillainous assault Of
Wednesday morning, occurred this morn
ing At 30. After over forty-eight hours OF
prolonged suffering death came at last to
ler relief The best medical attention to
be had in The city was given her, and
kind and loving hands did 81 N their
power 20 alleviate the suferirgs Cf her
last hours on earth. Her lifeless body was
clothed for the grave aud enCaSed il
neat rosewood coffin al The house of her
aunt, Mrs. Willis, and Will be
carried 70 Dallas tomorrow for
interment. /. was the intention OF Cap
cain and Mrs. Watkins to take their
daughters remains 10 Dallas this morn
ing, but, &cCgdiGg 70 the request Of the
officers 20 wait until tomorrow until en-
inquest could he held, tlev
GAVE Up TIE PLAN.
TIE inquest over tae body of Miss
Watkins has been going On all day, at the
BOslick house, where the dreadful tragedy
occurred. Justice Holman conducted
Inc inquest. as under g law recently goLe
iato force the co1oner's Jury is done
a7ysv with. The Investigation vss con
Quoted with the greatest secrecy, no one
except the Justice, the County Attorney,
end the Sheriff, being allowed fl the
room. where each witness was examined
separately Is soon IS his or her
testimony was gotten through with.
Fifteen Witnesses were examined, and
late this afternoon tine Justice retained 3
verdict hat Miss Genie Watkins came
10 her death, ut $3.50 this morning, from
11a eHse:. Of blows strUc7 with some
EDGED instrument in the hzuds Of some
rorson or persons Unknown Or tle morn
ING IS july IL.
The cln.ers who heard the testimony
81 the caroraI's inqrsst are very reticeat,
and. rytsgusa tsev say frsleIy tass
tlev have no 5arcyIs CLew 10
an CT. 81 is plefrIv ap0zrent
teat .re,r ropg: OF uoea-fafgr tre mis-
creqnt or I,,fsCrrsnt5 hsy- Increased.
rather tran di..iri.a,d wi5lin the past
tyyc2fv. four hours.
lis now Thought by 12-tias who lre i'm
2 position to know, that If su experienced
detective is brought here within the next
few DAYS, that he will be aD.e to sift eae
matter - the bottom ard unesrtl TIE
guilty. is reported that there are
rolf ,7r1ar or. s., detectives IN the CITY
at the present time. at work on The case,
eItanrIn IL thcv are here they are very
rightly keeping their
1DpTTfTy AND MOVEMENTS
from the people, in order 20 better per
form their work. The subscfiD.oa Tor
and almost $500 additional subscribed.
rhe determination 10 leave no stone IN
turned TO uncover the scOundreI, seems
to grow stronger every hour, and 40
EFFORT will he spared to put the neck Of
tie reroetrator OF the Outrage within the
moose.
4 thousand and enc wild rumors have
been in circulation on the streets
tor the past few days, snd the
woods nave been full of amateur
The rumOrs when traced to
their source would end in nothing |.
has been circulated on the streets extern
sfvplV that Miss watkins before here death
cave the name Of the GsssiIant. The
truth OF +Ha rla.fsr.is thgt Miss Watkins
did not have a lUcfi interval from .ba
tine sfr. rs. iriureC. and thai she did nor
+ir,a and then ooIv IN RESPONSE 20 direct
Questions put to her b7 her friends around
re bedside. She ftd Give g Dgrn,. but she
co.. several instead of Que. and
tho neupz she did g,v.. were given WHeu
asked. s'Was It so ali so?" TIE poor
girl was under the influence Of op.ates
.duifoc the whole sine. end seemed to be
im9alled by an Irresistible desire TO e.
syrr almost every GA siioa asked her
II THE aFfiR,fArfyv.
The piece of ron plpiag that was found
in the Bos.ick Garden Yesterday morning
and was thought % be eIccdg, turns out
10 have C9ly been rus,v, and what might
nave been a gc0d c.sw was rendered
worthless bv this discovery.
Itnss been rcnortgd t1qta crazy man
has bca- seen around town TINS wf,k,
and the police nave 3een On the lookout
tor hi-1, II ORDER to make aim acC3U1,I-E
a. whereabouts on Iuesfcy ni@l,' JUl
tatj 1-'. 10, y. succeeded IN dong So
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